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These are the buildings at Zazu's. The one to the left is the Macaw free flight building. There the birds are in a heated well lit building with trees and toys, where they are allowed to fly freely. (Currently Zazu's is looking for someone who would volunteer to build a waterfall for the birds to bath in so it will b...

This is the special needs home for Amazon, African Grey and Macaw Parrots. These birds have come from personal homes or other shelters taht could no l0nger care for them. They need special medical care and lots of love. Unfortunately I started this as a 360 but ran out of card space and then out of time. These are be...

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My first attempt at doing a gigapan of the night sky. This fails for two major reasons. First, there is no horizon to calibrate the gigapan, so the image might not have stitched properly. Second, even on a clear night with bright stars I have no good reference points to determine if the gigapan is seamless or repeating...

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This is a natural occurence but occurs here west of the mountains in Monte Alegre more often due to the atmospheric conditions. Halos form when moisture enters high in the atmosphere forming ice crystals, the orientation of the crystals bend light at angles that produce either 33° or 66° arcs. I think this is a 33° ...

Novemeber 2nd is a holiday in Brazil, set aside to honor the dead. This gigapan is the same as the other one, but taken with 2.2x digital magnification. The digital magnification seems to make the photo worse, not offering any extra detail. Some say Halloween started because it was the night before &quot;All Hallowed&q...

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Novemeber 2nd is a holiday in Brazil, set aside to honor the dead. This gigapan is not the most ideal photo of the place but it shows the number of people who come to visit their deceased relatives. The street was blocked off because there were so many people. We don't have a holiday of this magnitude in the U.S. Veter...

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This panorama was taken from an apartment near the Univeristy. It is facing north and shows the central district in the distance to the left, the commercial district is toward the center and to the right but in the far distance. In the near distance is a cemetery and in the near distance and sprawling as far as the eye...

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A typical Amazonian farm with secondary forest, primary forest, and some subsistence agricultural systems, as well as pasture. The farm is close to the Yaverija river, close to the Brazilian/Bolivian border in the Madre de Dios Region, Southeastern Peru.